group will present Nola

Theiss and Jane Roberts as guest

speakers on Thursday, January 21.

Jane Roberts is a grass-roots activist

for women’s rights around the world. She

is the cofounder of Thirty Four Million

Friends of the United Nations Population

Fund, was one of the Women of the Year

of the 21st Century for Women’s eNews,

and was nominated for the 2005 Nobel

Peace Prize with the 1000 Peace Women

Project under the auspices of UNESCO.

Roberts has written hundreds of

articles, as a regular contributor to

MaximsNews Network for the United

of women in developing countries who

suffer with no access to health services.

Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof of

her in his column and in his book, Half the Sky

Known to Sanibel residents as a past

mayor of the Sanibel, Theiss is now the

executive director of Human Trafficking

Awareness Partnerships, a non-profit

organization she founded three years ago.

The organization has brought awareness

to the issue of modern day slavery and

has helped community leaders form coalitions

to fight human trafficking. Theiss

has written and co-authored articles and

presentations on human trafficking, and

her work has been featured in numerous

newspapers and magazines, and at academic

forums in the U.S. and around the

world. She will discuss the many faces of

human trafficking and the progress made

to combat it in the U.S. and Canada.

Both women are true forces for

change and proof that one person can

make a difference.

The public is invited to join the discussion

in BIG ARTS Phillips Gallery at 10